thurstongarden;371920 Wrote: > I think having my music on a clean partition will save a lot of time in > the future
This is a good idea, but it's probably not contributing to your long start times because music isn't accessed on startup. What does affect startup is all the useless crap that Dell (and just about everybody else!) puts on your system that has to check for various things. Adobe Reader checks to see if there are any updates, Office has a resident application for "faster" startup later (at the expense of slower startup on boot), etc. Critically examine every item in your task manager and every item in services.msc, google it and ask if you really need it. thurstongarden;371944 Wrote: > Can I have Ubuntu on the fit-pc and have it talk to my XP laptop on the > network? Yes. Ubuntu's file sharing system, samba, is designed to emulate a Windows share. Ubuntu also doesn't come with too much stuff to start up, so boot times should be a lot faster. Even my old 400 MHz AMD K6-2 (with xubuntu) takes about a minute to boot. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
